Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2010

For Earth Day 2010, we've featured a variety of posts on how to green your technology. So every once in a while, even the technologically super-advanced are faced with the question, "Can you fax that to me?". Tags: E-mail Green Office GreenTech Hardware Tech Planning Telecom Services Using the Web and Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We had to understand the problem and the challenge we were working on. Not just sit back and listen, but actively for three things: Roses or strengths, Thorns or problems, or Buds or opportunities. It also helped us a group see the problem together – an important base for innovative thinking.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

If you’re not “ all signs point to go ,” it may be time to either hang up your shingle or look around and see what other problems you might address. Here are signs your work may be in the danger (red) or caution (yellow) zone, rather than full speed ahead (green) zone: Your budget has stayed the same for quite some time, or it has shrunk.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

From 10-paragraph editorials to 2-paragraph commentaries on breaking news, when you use the ideas given here, you should have no problem publishing the required minimum of one blog post per week (less than that and your blog starts to look abandoned). Still, understand that the content your nonprofit blog publishes, the higher your ROI.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Indeed, far too many people choose an inadequate or downright shady host in order save a few dollars, and doing so can create a plethora of ongoing problems. You know that little green lock that appears in the address bar of your web browser? Have they had problems with any of their plugins in the past?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The key to successful fundraising is asking smarter questions. We’re here to talk about “Raising More Money By Asking and Answering Better Questions.” There’s also a Q&A box specifically, your questions might be a little more visible there if you use that one. We’ll take questions at the end.

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

According to a guideline published by M+R, a useful quick test for your own messaging is to simply answer the question: If the subject of this story were to read it, how would they feel? The challenges of strength-based messaging Finding the balance in your story. Recognize we all face obstacles and require support from time to time.

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Top Nonprofits

MAY 6, 2021

I look at the big problems of the world and I would like to have big solutions. There are three simple questions that I think are useful for asking when determining if you should innovate at all: Can you achieve your ambitious goals through business as usual? Some problems are just stuck. First of all, do you need to innovate?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

From 10-paragraph editorials to 2-paragraph commentaries on breaking news, when you use the ideas given here, you should have no problem publishing the required minimum of one blog post per week (less than that and your blog starts to look abandoned). Interview Experts.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

This is not only a disappointing experience for your visitor, but it can also lead them to ask a series of questions about your organization as a whole. These are not the types of questions you want your audience to ask about your nonprofit. Is the organization still relevant? Are they on top of their mission? Contact information.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Here are signs your nonprofit may be in the danger (red) or caution (yellow) zone, rather than the full speed ahead (green) zone: Your budget has stayed the same for quite some time or it has shrunk. You could sponsor and share research that may help with many of the world’s problems. The answer to both questions? Just start. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Evaluation is not about getting to a best practice that can be spread around the world in a standardized way and to answer the question, “Is everyone following the recipe?” It isn’t a pharmacy metaphor of finding a pill to solve the problem. New questions, challenges, and opportunities for success are emerging.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

John McElhenney - Clear Green Technologies. A heroic ideal: our social and environmental problems are solvable; social entrepreneurship; information technology. Started with mega trends of social media and green living. Green or Sustainability? Presenters: Emily Gertz - Change.org. Jon Lebkowsky - Social Web Strategies.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Britt: For people who aren't familiar with green rooftops, what is a green roof? But literally they're green because it's a garden on a roof. Britt: What are some of the benefits of a green roof? These are two really big urban cities that obviously have problems with pollution and really intense heat.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 5, 2023

The problem is that if you’re like most, you haven’t paid a lot of attention to your accounting system. Starting or fixing your accounting system BEFORE you have a problem is just smart planning. Because believe me, without a good nonprofit accounting system in place, you WILL run into problems later. I promise you will.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2014

You've heard of the Incredible Hulk and Green Lantern. But you've probably never heard of this green superhero. In 2001, Microsoft responded to requests by refurbishers for some remedy to this problem by creating the Microsoft Authorized Refurbisher (MAR) Program. This year the award went to Sean Nicholson. spanhidden.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Attendees will gather and answer the same question “How can new technology and new media create solutions for the biggest problems facing my community?” And while many folks weren’t able to make the one-day conference in NYC over the weekend, over 300 cities across the U.S. and abroad are hosting Meetups today.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 3, 2015

All medium and large nonprofits with multiple chapters eventually experience a unique, but common problem in their mobile and social media campaigns. It will help melt resistance.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

From 10-paragraph editorials to 2-paragraph commentaries on breaking news, when you use the ideas given here, you should have no problem publishing the required minimum of one blog post per week (less than that and your blog starts to look abandoned). Interview Experts.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 27, 2016

If you answered no to either of these questions, then you might need to rethink your grant seeking program. Assign a weight to each criteria based on its importance in the final decision of whether to give the request a green light or red light. Needs to be addressed or problems to be solved in narrative format.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

I also don’t have the budget to bring in a consultant or vendor to solve every non-program problem. Draw a green line where information is flowing smoothly. Please leave your suggestions, stories, and questions in the comments below! But I do have to do my homework and make smaller, strategic technology decisions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 23, 2008

As I mentioned last week, I've started hosting a new podcast produced by Echoing Green , the Be Bold Podcast. This week's show features a discussion of two career related questions with Lara Galinsky, author of Be Bold: Create A Career with Impact. This week's question are: 1. career social entrepreneur nonprofit podcast advice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The purpose of the Design Lab was to answer two key questions to gather input for its strategy: How can the Brainerd Foundation and its philanthropic partners accelerate the transition to 21st Century advocacy for grantees? Sometimes the enemy of innovation is not solving the right problem. Concept 4: 21st Century Enquirer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Says Giller, “Our theory of change is engaging users around content that shows how being green can reshape our world can empower personal behavior change and ultimately impact society at large. .&# They have inspired a whole new generation of environmentalists who don’t take themselves so seriously while creating on the ground change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

For nonprofits, this should not be a foreign concept. Here's a sampling: Lewis Green warns not to use the traditional investment financial calculations but instead measure value. They are saying that you need to measure value and that it value doesn't necessarily translate into dollars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2011

According this post by Gina Trapani , many geeks think QR codes are gimmicky , clumsy , not used well or enough , or that they’re “ a solution looking for a problem. As SFGMC continues to “go green,&# we have for the first time made our concert program available on line pre-show.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

"After talking though the capabilities and getting a few questions answered, I left with little doubt that moving to Office 365 would be hugely beneficial for us," Samuels writes. You need a degree of technical skill to handle problems that may come up, like in Active Directory." Sign up for Office 365 Nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

Along with Kathy Reich and Stephanie McAuliffe , we got to ask many questions about their network. As David Witzel observed during our conversation, "A problem-solving network is the only way we scale rapidly and effect change with limited resources." This is an open and transparent network.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Its goal is to bring together theory and academic research in the field of family science with therapists who are working directly with families to help them solve their problems. You need a degree of technical skill to handle problems that may come up, like in Active Directory." Sign up for Office 365 Nonprofit. spanhidden.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 17, 2009

While re-reading Echoing Green's book, Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact , I've been thinking about one of its main ideas--that people have moments of obligation. One of my moments of obligation came during the Green Festival in San Francisco in the fall of 2002. Echoing Green Fellows' descriptions of their moments of obligation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2007

Hello, Joe Green , what's up with that? What's the big problem with causes? So, here's my question. Causes has a leader board where it shows who recruited the most people, who donated the most, and who got the most donations. It shows five positions for each. At anytime, you could get knocked out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

While there is no one right way to use the technique, what would customarily be defined as homework (problem sets, essay writing, etc.) She said the workshop gave her the time to get started working on it and was confident that she’d be putting it into practice immediately.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2015

Photoshop includes many options for tweaking the tone, which is the overall lightness or darkness and colors of the image in relation to warmth (red/orange/yellow) or coolness (blue/green). In this case, since the background is a pretty subtle gradient, Photoshop handles it with no problem. Have any questions so far? Part Three.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

"After talking though the capabilities and getting a few questions answered, I left with little doubt that moving to Office 365 would be hugely beneficial for us," Samuels writes. You need a degree of technical skill to handle problems that may come up, like in Active Directory." Sign up for Office 365 Nonprofit.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

It includes presence information (your avatar glows green if you're online) and chat while doing things like watching YouTube or Netflix videos. Aardvark is a question and answer service that determines what topics you know about and who your friends are, then lets you ask the service questions. The Real-Time Web of People.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

A Few Book Suggestions: Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact , a publication of Echoing Green. They were all Echoing Green Fellows who received up to $90,000 in seed funding and technical support to turn their ideas into sustainable organizations. question from your relatives, order a copy of Be Bold and read it on the plane.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 31, 2021

We recommend reflecting on your brand both internally and externally, surveying all of the above stakeholders against the following questions: How is your organization currently perceived? These questions will help you understand the story that’s currently surrounding your nonprofit.

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